Cyrtophyllum fragrans(Roxb.) DC.

WFO wfo-0000636236 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Cyrtophyllum fragrans, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-02-22 / obs. 180292076
Cyrtophyllum fragrans, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. b Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 128172630
Cyrtophyllum fragrans, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. c Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 49571859
Cyrtophyllum fragrans, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. d Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 67873347
Cyrtophyllum fragrans, photographed by pbsg
fig. e pbsg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174807782
Cyrtophyllum fragrans, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. f Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150453290
Cyrtophyllum fragrans, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. g Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59776096
Cyrtophyllum fragrans, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. h Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160987295

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Cyrtophyllum fragrans is native: Andaman Is., Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam BorneoCambodiaJawaLaosMalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.
Native distribution of Cyrtophyllum fragrans, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 151 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 19.1 °C 23.9 °C 25.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.7 °C 29.5 °C 34.5 °C
Annual rainfall 1,515 mm 2,484 mm 3,059 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 38 mm 500 mm 547 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 151 research-grade observations of Cyrtophyllum fragrans that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cyrtophyllum peregrinum Reinw.
  • Fagraea fragrans Roxb.
  • Fagraea peregrina (Reinw.) Blume
  • Fagraea ridleyi Gand.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.